The museum was established in 1961.
Prior Exhibits
- Choosing a Future with Water: Lessons from the Hohokam
- ALTERNATIVE
- Becoming Human: 30 Years of Research and Discovery
- South Phoenix through the Eyes of Youth
- Trading Cloth and Culture
- Current Southwest Archaeology 2009
- Return of the Corn Mothers
- Arte Popular: A Preview of the New Latin American Folk Art Collection
- Simply Formal
- Past Forms
- Current Southwest Archaeology 2008
- ¡Que Vivan los Muertos!
- Collected Impressions
- Fuse: Portraits of Refugee Households in Metropolitan Phoenix
- Mosaic: Cultural Identity in America
- Ancient Ofrenda: Elements of an Altar
- Alien Images: UFOs, Photography and Belief
- Lowriders: 8th Annual Día de los Muertos Festival Exhibit
- Skin Deep: A Cultural History of Tattooing
- Transcending Borders: 7th Annual Día de los Muertos Festival Exhibit
- Loom-inous Creations: Textile Traditions from Southeast Asia
- Room for the Dead: 6th Annual Día de los Muertos Festival Exhibit
- Being Human: Celebrating the New School of Human Evolution and Social Change
- Time & Again: The Photographs of Allen Dutton
- Visiones Sagrados, Sacred Sites: 5th Annual Día de los Muertos Festival Exhibit
Explore the web version of the "Who were the Salado?" museum exhibit previously displayed in 1999–2000 at the City of Phoenix Pueblo Grande Museum and relocated for the 2000-2003 exhibition at the ASU Museum of Anthropology.
